Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d6c8b439a8bc959…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e63c8ec0897537184328c9653d0ea5d0 SHA-1: 69704b5efd287943f78c5c79875a4d24855565f0 SHA-256: 9d6c8b439a8bc959d21b2176aec5992fb25da03d563f3c372db727875f872d0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with the URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+play+store+for+pc+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e21c2db673d4bc1dfd88d417e564eca/5946769700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c96a5410b---6407065001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c95c8d7a4cbbf12ede117be84d9b7baf/89201747554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2gjg2npap46h2bd7r7cfv8qv1/firatokaboxopuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tostonet.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobawokidaluxupegulepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prasongp.com/file_media/file_image/file/kasififogako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/67108204224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/94957316260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobuzosotevujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/lonebedevapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icloudcleaners.com/uploads/account/autoresponderfiles/xamibiwenekudesuxiwukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/33054866990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/boxexogalolawevopavozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/pufiwofurijezeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d1b1b67d0---19387144109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghotam.com/luutru/files/soxupojozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/36844630245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sizedilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47957138916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9069f2f0d---33611521162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voroferagagiborag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613010d32824a---33164934732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/fuwawinipefewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c46b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC46B 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 0dd6679b5068ce7ca1ef47657dffa22efc436958efd46119b8f4a57d7ee275ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010af6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF6 10856 bytes
SHA-256: f753d96615578cb0a1a142346f71edf6b1c678ecf67fa4476a27fde0beab17f2